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(h) Monitoring: GEF will ensure that programs and projects are monitored and
evaluated on a regular basis.
(i) Disclosure of information: GEF projects will provide full disclosure of all non
confidential information.
14. The new Operational Program on the Phasing Out of POPs will be cross-cutting in
nature. Multiple global benefits in the areas of the prevention of transboundary
contamination of water-bodies, the conservation of biodiversity, and the prevention of land
degradation will be accrued from actions eligible under the new operational program.
15. Activities will be developed at three different geographical levels: national, regional,
and global. Emphasis will be on actions at the country level, as the main objective of the OP
is to provide assistance to countries for the implementation of the provisions of the
convention. Regional actions will also be eligible or financing if deemed appropriate by the
countries, when similarities in environmental conditions and socio-economic context presents
opportunities for the optimization of resources, the sharing of experience and the
enhancement of replication potentialities. Interventions at the global level will also be
eligible, in areas such as the facilitation of targeted research efforts, and assessments.
16. Eligible interventions will fall into two categories:
(a) Development and strengthening of capacity, aimed at enabling the recipient
country to fulfill its obligations under the convention. These country specific
enabling activities will be eligible for full funding of agreed costs.
(b) On the ground interventions, aimed at implementing specific phase-out and
remediation measures at national and/or regional level, and including
components of targeted capacity building. This second category of GEF
interventions (Full Projects or Medium Size Projects, including Targeted
Research Projects) will be eligible for GEF incremental costs funding.
ENABLING ACTIVITIES
17. Enabling activities, as defined in the GEF Operational Strategy, represent a basic
building block of GEF assistance to countries. They either are a means of fulfilling essential
communication requirements to a Convention, provide a basic and essential level of
information to enable policy and strategic decisions to be made, or assist planning that
identifies priority activities within a country. Countries thus enabled will have the ability to
formulate and direct sectoral and economy-wide programs to address global environmental
problems through a cost-effective approach within the context of national sustainable
development efforts. Country driven enabling activities will normally qualify for full agreed
costs funding when they are directly related to global environmental benefits and/or
consistent with the guidance of a Convention.
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